Artists

Alfred T. Ordway (1821–1897) was an American landscape and portrait painter, and one of the founding fathers of the Boston Art Club.[1] Early years Alfred was born in Roxbury, Massachusetts to mother Currier, and father Thomas Ordway on March 9, 1821. With his father being the cities' clerk, Alfred spent the majority of his childhood in Lowell,...

Artist, professor, architectural historian and first Director of Harvard's Fogg Art Museum, Charles Herbert Moore was born on April 10, 1840 to Charles and Jane Maria Moore. He grew up in New York City, where he attended public schools. Moore never attended college. He began a career as a landscape painter in the 1850s, having studied at the...

George McConnell was born in Steubenville, OH in 1852 and died in Portland, ME in 1929.  He studied portraiture in Philadelphia and New York.   He also studied landscape painting with George Inness and continue his art training at the Academy Julien in Paris. In 1883, at the age of thirty-one, McConnell settled in Portland, Maine.  He did...

During the first half of the nineteenth century artists fanned out across the northeastern United States to find aesthetic inspiration in nature. Thomas Addison Richards was one of the few who traveled extensively in the South. Through his paintings, illustrated magazine articles, and guidebooks, Richards introduced the natural beauty and distinct...

Alfred Thompson trained as a lawyer but turned to painting shortly before the Civil War, painting both landscapes and portraits.  He studied in Baltimore and in Paris.  He studied with Gleyke in 1861-62 and also with E. Lambinet and A. Pasisi in the period 1862 to 1868. He served as an illustrator of war scenes with Harper's Weekly and...